Complex diseases are influenced by many interacting genetic and environmental risk factors. A multiethnic case-control association study identifies a genetic variant for myocardial infarction that seems to confer higher risk in African Americans than in European Americans.
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Tang, H. Confronting ethnicity-specific disease risk. Nat Genet 38, 13–15 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0106-13
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